A frontline Niger Delta activist, Mallam Julius Obi, has instructed the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government that youths in the Niger Delta are ready, disciplined and ready to perform national duties.
Addressing journalists in Abuja on behalf of the United Niger Delta Congress, Obi famous that some youths in the area have proven that such duties, together with the safety of pipelines, will be entrusted to them.
According to him, the Niger Delta is safer whereas the nation’s crude is flowing based mostly on the truth that youths in the area are doing the job.
“We additionally tackle a phrase to the Federal Government… Nigeria is filled with younger women and men who’re ready, disciplined and ready to carry national duties,” he mentioned.
He mentioned that being a youth shouldn’t be a disqualification from strategic assignments however, when matched with preparation and character, a national asset.
“We urge the Federal Government to maintain opening the doorways of strategic national service to younger Nigerians who’ve earned belief the one means it may be earned, by supply,” Obi added.
Furthermore, he recommended President Tinubu for sustaining the safety reforms in the oil and gasoline business; the National Security Adviser, NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, for coordinating the safety of the nation’s pipelines, and the administration of NNPCL for offering the enabling surroundings.
Recall that just lately the House of Representatives Committee on Host Communities, performing by way of its technical subcommittee, investigated petitions introduced in opposition to some pipeline surveillance contractors and located the allegations in opposition to them unsubstantiated.
The subcommittee advisable the dismissal of the petition, the discontinuation of additional investigation. Reacting to the development, Obi said that it was proper that due course of was adopted, including that environment friendly operations in safeguarding oil and gasoline infrastructure in the Niger Delta ought to at all times get a vote of confidence.
